Telling a Tale of One Ship with Two Names: Queen Anne’s Revenge and La Concorde
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2020
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Telling a Tale of One Ship with Two Names: Queen Anne’s Revenge and La Concorde," at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Through 20 years of investigations NC state shipwreck (31CR314) is identified as Queen Anne’s Revenge (1718), Blackbeard the pirate’s flagship. This ship was also a French slave vessel, La Concorde, until its capture and renaming by the pirates close to Martinique in November 1717. Tales told so far mostly focus on its history as Blackbeard’s flagship. La Concorde’s history, however, was longer and had much more devastating consequences for many than her passing role as a pirate ship. North Carolina’s Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, African American Heritage Commission, and Office of State Archaeology, with IMLS funding are seeking to reveal and retell more of the hidden histories of La Concorde. Papers presented will describe work done by various researchers, including under this IMLS funded project and invite discussion on what, whose and how, we all might continue to tell tales of one ship that had two names.
Other Keywords
La Concorde •
Gold •
Public Outreach •
Archival Evidence •
Glass •
Shipwreck •
Africa •
Museum education •
Queen Anne's Revenge •
contradictions
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18th Century •
1700s •
1718
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Authenticity—Engaging Your Audiences with Real Experiences: Life Inside The Fishbowl And Other Tales from The North Carolina Maritime Museums’ Queen Anne’s Revenge Demonstration Lab (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Telling a Tale of One Ship with Two Names: Queen Anne’s Revenge and La Concorde" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Through the installation of a demonstration laboratory at the Beaufort North Carolina Maritime Museum, the North Carolina Maritime Museum System and the Queen Anne’s Revenge Project have worked together to increase the educational impact of the Queen Anne’s Revenge (QAR) exhibit. The introduction...
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Gold and Glass: African Expressions of Creation aboard the Slave Ship La Concorde (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Telling a Tale of One Ship with Two Names: Queen Anne’s Revenge and La Concorde" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Amongst the artifact assemblage of the early 18th century slave ship La Concorde, housed in the North Carolina Conservation laboratory on East Carolina University campus, are a gold jewelry item and worked glass bottle fragments. Preliminary research suggests that the gold may be of Akan origins...
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Sharing Stories of The Sunken Prize (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Telling a Tale of One Ship with Two Names: Queen Anne’s Revenge and La Concorde" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A recent three-year project by two independent scholars produced a book summarizing the discovery, recovery, and artifact analyses of a French privateer and slave transport, Concorde, that ended its service under control of pirates as Queen Anne’s Revenge. It was a ship with more than one life...
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A Tale of Two Ships: Developing a Collection Research and Interpretation Plan (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Telling a Tale of One Ship with Two Names: Queen Anne’s Revenge and La Concorde" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In September 2018, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a grant to NC’s African American Heritage Commission (AAHC) for “A Tale of Two Ships: Developing a Research & Interpretation Plan for Revealing Hidden Histories of One ship with Two Identities”. The ship being NC State...
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Tales from the Archive (2020)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Telling a Tale of One Ship with Two Names: Queen Anne’s Revenge and La Concorde" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The tale of Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge is a renowned aspect of North Carolinian and Colonial American History. While Blackbeard and Queen’s Anne’s Revenge enjoy the limelight, the tale Blackbeard’s procurement of the ship and its time before piracy remains obscure. Prior to becoming...